My name is Tamara. I am the person behind TRUE TOYS.
TRUE TOYS is about empowering kindergarten teachers through kindergarten teaching, and the way I like to do it is with help of toys and space.
My mission is to assist every kindergarten professional working in a group with children wanting to learn to arrange kindergarten rooms beautifully and correctly.
I always loved toys. I used to move furniture around in my room just to see “how it looks like”. Becoming a kindergarten teacher was in a way a dream come true as it meant the toys were now a part of my job. To this day I walk into a room and feel if it’s “off” and could use rearranging.
But becoming a kindergarten teacher brought something else unexpectedly into my life. A mountain of remarkable human beings, many of who became friends – my colleagues.
I started making TRUE TOYS with my dad in 2010 as a response to working with children. Back then they were just simple, true, and even obvious, toys and tools for kids in a kindergarten. Everyone was always asking if my dad could make some for them too.
My vision is all kindergarten children being taken care of by Enlightened Kinderpreneurs.
There is a type of a teacher I have been encountering and working with for many years now. In most cases these teachers are not even aware of the profound impact they have not only on children but us working by their side. I like to call them Enlightened Kinderpreneurs.
Enlightened Kinderpreneurs embody qualities such as creativity, motivation, love for their work, studiousness, a thirst for deeper knowledge, modesty and a search for meaning in what they do. They combine the nurturing aspect of their profession with an entrepreneurial mindset and a quest for personal and professional growth.
These individuals strive to create meaningful learning experiences for young children while continuously seeking for ways to innovate and improve their practice.
They have been my mentors, support system and a source of everlasting joy and laughter. I dedicate this space here on my website to these teachers and hope that they begin to realize that there is actually a terminology for who they are professionally and how they are, and that there are others who see them, appreciate them and wish to celebrate them.
My products include toy sketches for kindergarten use to promote child independence development, along with resources to help fellow kindergarten teachers enhance their classroom arrangement and teaching experience.
I choose to be a kindergarten teacher. Working with kindergarten children enables me to observe and study play firsthand, and to me, that is of irreplaceable value. In my own experience, it can be challenging to take advice from someone on the outside of practice, and I promised myself not to become that someone.
Toys and kindergarten space are my niche. I can show you how to turn your kindergarten classroom into both equally aesthetically and pedagogically appealing environment by rearranging it.
I believe, the more one delves into their interests, irrespective of others’ opinions, their confidence builds up steadily and they make their expertise grow irreversibly.
